Leigh Meyers wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Max B. Sawicky
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 9:33 AM
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] The White "Workers" in Amerika
>
> Some people used to gripe about black folks driving
> Cadillacs.
> <>
>
> I'm annoyed by people who drive gas guzzlers no matter what their
> ethnic backround is.
I'm annoyed at people who sit on the sidelines and snarl at the terrain* without building actions and movements that offer a visible alternative to the joys of individual consumption. Until such a movement emerges, Three Cheers for the drives of SUVs (though I personally wouldn't be caught dead driving one).
Carrol
"Terrain" = the total culture of the u.s. working class, i.e. the total culture of somewhere between 80% and 90+% of the population.